Useful Guides for Writing and Formatting Research Papers
Tufts University Research Paper Navigator. Time management guide for research papers.
http://tinyurl.com/research-paper-timeline
Bedford St. Martin’s Press provides links to MLA, APA, and other citation formats.
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
Capital Community College’s excellent “Guide to Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation” that takes you through all facets of the process of writing research papers.
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
The Internet Public Library’s “Teenspace: A+ Research & Writing”offers step by step guidelines for writing research papers.
http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/aplus/step2.htm
Purdue University’s OWL Online Writing Lab. This handout provides detailed information about how to write research papers including discussing research papers as a genre, choosing topics, and finding sources. This resource was written by Sarah Hamid and Jack Raymond Baker.
Last full revision by Jack Raymond Baker. Last edited by Allen Brizee on April 14th 2009 at 12:08PM
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/01/
Citation Generators
The student is responsible for providing MLA citations that meet the requirements of Lansdale School of Business. All online generators issue disclaimers as to their accuracy. You may use the citations generated as a basis for your MLA citation, but you must make the necessary revisions. Keep in mind the EBSCOhost and CQ Researcher databases provide MLA citations.
BibMe is a free citation generator developed at Carnegie Mellon University that produces citations and bibliographies in APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian styles. It has some features not found in other free citation generators, such as autofill and the ability to switch between citation styles.
KnightCite!
http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
Maintained by the Hekman Library at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI.
Landmark Son of Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/
NoodleBib Express
Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe — simply generate them in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool.
http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
Style Wizard Currently under revision. Check after Oct. 2009.
http://www.stylewizard.com/mlaindex.html
Zotero Zotero is a free, open source utility that works in the Firefox browser to help users collect, manage and cite sources.
Fee-based Citation Generators
This site formats and alphabetizes bibliographies for 37 types of sources in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian style. The cost is $14.99/year for students. Users can save a bibliography online or import to Word. It includes a feature to upload journal article citations from databases. There is limited help. A free one week trial is available.
NoodleBib is an award winning site developed by librarian Debbie Abilock that formats and alphabetizes bibliographies in MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian styles for over 50 types of sources. The cost is $8.00/year for students. Users can save bibliographies online or import to Word. NoodleBib includes fully integrated note-taking feature, which is very useful when writing papers.
http://www.noodletools.com/index.php
New purchase: $99.00 with upgrades available for $39.00.